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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Ruby on Rails 4.1 Release Notes
Highlights in Rails 4.1:
* Variants
+* Spring
* Action View extracted from Action Pack
These release notes cover only the major changes. To know about various bug
@@ -61,6 +62,44 @@ Major Features
app/views/projects/show.html+phone.erb
```
+### Spring
+
+New Rails 4.1 applications will ship with "springified" binstubs. This means
+that `bin/rails` and `bin/rake` will automatically take advantage preloaded
+spring environments.
+
+**running rake tasks:**
+```
+bin/rake routes
+```
+
+**running tests:**
+```
+bin/rake test
+bin/rake test test/models
+bin/rake test test/models/user_test.rb
+```
+
+**running a console:**
+```
+bin/rails console
+```
+
+**spring introspection:**
+```
+$ bundle exec spring status
+Spring is running:
+
+ 1182 spring server | my_app | started 29 mins ago
+ 3656 spring app | my_app | started 23 secs ago | test mode
+ 3746 spring app | my_app | started 10 secs ago | development mode
+```
+
+Have a look at the
+[Spring README](https://github.com/jonleighton/spring/blob/master/README.md) to
+see a all available features.
+
+
Documentation
-------------
@@ -90,6 +129,12 @@ for detailed changes.
### Notable changes
+* The [Spring application
+ preloader](https://github.com/jonleighton/spring) is now installed
+ by default for new applications. It uses the development group of
+ the Gemfile, so will not be installed in
+ production. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/12958))
+
* `BACKTRACE` environment variable to show unfiltered backtraces for test
failures. ([Commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/84eac5dab8b0fe9ee20b51250e52ad7bfea36553))